[248] Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. i., lib. ii., p. 189.
[249] Tezozomoc, Hist. Mex., tom. i., p. 87.
[250] 'I Plebei si travestivano in varie figure d'animali con abiti fatti di carta, e di penne, o di pelli'—no doubt to distinguish them from the gentry when they joined in the dance. Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 179-81, and others who follow him. In Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. i., lib. ii., pp. 130-3, is a long description of feast-day dress. For description of dances see Id., tom. ii., lib. viii. pp. 308-9, 314-15; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., pp. 550-2; D'Avity, L'Amérique, tom. ii., p. 68; Montanus, Nieuwe Weereld, pp. 267-8; Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., pp. 446-9; Purchas his Pilgrimes, vol. iv., pp. 1064-5; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 643-5; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., pp. 669-71; Mendieta, Hist. Ecles., pp. 140-3; Tezozomoc, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 61, 87; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 106-7; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 56-8; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vii., cap. viii., dec. iii., lib. ii., cap. xix., and Translation, Lond. 1726, vol. iii., p. 227, with cut.
[251] Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 144-5, has it that the audience also attended this ball.
[252] Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., pp. 391-2; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 76-8; Pimentel, Mem. sobre la Raza Indígena, pp. 59-60; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., pp. 674-6.
[253] For an account of Tezcatlipoca see Vol. III. of this work.
[254] Called tlapanhuehuetl by Tezozomoc and Brasseur de Bourbourg.
[255] Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 179, etc.
[256] Quatre Lettres, p. 94.
[257] Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 106, states, 'y esto va todo en copla por sus consonantes,' but it is not likely that they were anything else than blank verse, for such a thing as rhyme is not mentioned by any other writer.